AWARDS:

•  Winner - Best Hat Galway Races 2017

•  Winner - Irish Fashion Innovation Awards Millinery Designer of the Year 2017

• Winner - Champion Hat, Punchastown Races September 2016

• Winner - River Island/Accessories Four Competition – Hat Design produced and sold in River Island Stores.·

• Second Prize - Peter Jones Ascot Competition – Hat sold in Peter Jones store, Slone Square.·

• Shortlisted - Felt Hat Competition in association with Worshipful Company of Feltmakers of London.·

• Semi-Finalist – Hat Designer of Year Competition in association with The Hat Magazine London/Paris 2007 & 2012.·

• Finalist Cavan Business Awards 2015

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• Member of Council of Irish Fashion Designers and Craft & Design Council of Ireland

 

 

COLLABORATIONS:

• Brown Thomas Create 2015 & 2016

• Specially Commissioned LynchMob Hats Brown Thomas The Marvel Room.

• Specially Commissioned S/S LynchMob Hats Brown Thomas

• Specially Commissioned Millinery Couture Collection, Brown Thomas Galway

• Collaboration Cadburys Ireland – Designing and creating a Hat/Headpiece based on the Cadbury Bubbly Bar for a Sting/Ad for TV3’s Xpose.·

• Collaboration Pfizer/Bloom In The Park – Designing and creating 4 Hats/Headpieces for Pfizer, sponcer of Bloom In The Park·

• Collaboration with River Island and Accessories 4

• Collaboration with Peter Jones, Slone Square, London and Ascot

• Theatrical Millinery – The Gainsborough Hat.·

 

EDUCATION:

• Distinction in Millinery Design – Kensington and Chelsea College – Chelsea London·

• Millinery Design – Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design – London·​

• Fashion Design – Limerick School of Art and Design - Ireland

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Ian Bennett – Workroom and Shop assistant – Oxo Tower, London.·

• Noel Stewart – Working in studio helping to make hats for London Fashion Week and Private Clients including Alison Goldfrapp – Chelsea London·

• Clements Ribeiro – Production assistant for two seasons London Fashion Week.​

• Caroline Mitchel Knitwear - Machine Knitting garments in Caroline’s Studio – Limerick, Ireland.

• Topshop Oxford Circus – Top Level Sales Advisor/Supervisor Accessories Department.

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PRESS:

• Front page The Sunday Times, Image Magazine, The Hat Magazine, The Evening Herald, U Magazine, Prudence Magazine, The Sun, The Mirror, The Irish Times, The Angelo Celt, The Sunday Independent, The Sunday Business Post, Social and Personal Magazine, Confetti Magazine, One Fab Day.ie

• Interviews on TV3 Xpose, Dave Fanning RTE Radio 1, Ryan Tuberty RTE Radio 1, Bobby Kerr Newstalk.·

• Business Casestudy for National Women’s Enterprise Day 2013.·

 

TEACHING MILLINERY - CLASSES:

• Irish School of Millinery/The Feathered Milliner, Dublin

• Cavan VEC

• Meath VEC

• Monaghan Museum

• Clones Library